Jonathan Stewart signs 1 year extension through 2018.

[LinvilleGorge]

The only reason Stew is still valuable for us is because we haven't back-filled the position behind him.

I like Stew and, but the reality is that he has one 1000 yard season in his entire career and that wasn't even in this decade. The last time he played 16 games was 2011. The guy has made more money for marginal production and spotty availability than just about any RB I can ever remember.

[Jangler]

10 minutes ago, shaqattaq said:

Victor Cruz, come on down! You're the next contestant on Dave's Got Some Dollars!

 

Couldn't find a clip from that show, but...

RIP Chuck Barris

[PantherPaw87]

If he can stay healthy I'm fine with it. Especially if we draft Fournette. We would go from a decent RB group to a dangerous one overnight. 

[steven8989]

Curious to see what we do to justify this move. I hate the idea of pushing guaranteed money into a future year for a 30 year old injury prone RB when we were about to be off the hook after this season. Gotta be something in the works that we needed a bit more space this year.

Well ur looking at 7-8 mil for rookies. And then if u have injuries during the year. I would say that's the only reason. I don't see them going after anyone else.

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[steven8989]

Victor Cruz, come on down! You're the next contestant on Dave's Got Some Dollars!

U have to have about 7-8 mil for rookies and in case of injuries during the season. Maybe have an extension coming. Don't see them picking up anyone else.

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[GoobyPls]

I would have have rather they cut him

[steven8989]

I would have have rather they cut him

You can't start a rookie. Not unless u going to get Peterson

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[E CaT PanTHer 2]

32 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The only reason Stew is still valuable for us is because we haven't back-filled the position behind him.

I like Stew and, but the reality is that he has one 1000 yard season in his entire career and that wasn't even in this decade. The last time he played 16 games was 2011. The guy has made more money for marginal production and spotty availability than just about any RB I can ever remember.

the Panthers ran the two headed monster with D-Will and Stew for so many years. You can't blame Stew for his lack of 1,000 yard seasons. 

[Vagrant]

This means nothing about who we're drafting. If it did, we would have done it after the draft. There's no way we telegraph a target by freeing up some cap space. I know it's the season of reaching and jumping to conclusions, but all this means is we get a little cap relief to patch the remaining holes. 

[Davidson Deac II]

1 hour ago, Toomers said:

    I saw no one say that they wanted him cut, as in gone. Just restructured. Or cut and re-sign, which would be same thing. This was all anyone wanted from the beginning. Just get his ridiculous salary under control since we finally had some leverage. 

    Where are all the people who said JStew would not/shouldn't take a pay cut/restructure?  

fwiw, I didn't mean cut this year, I meant maybe after the next season.  It doesn't appear to be geered towards that though.  

[Toomers]

1 minute ago, Davidson Deac II said:

fwiw, I didn't mean cut this year, I meant maybe after the next season.  It doesn't appear to be geered towards that though.  

Quoted wrong post. Sorry. Wasn't intended towards you at all.

[pantherclaw]

A lot of butt hurt fans who seem to think they knoe something. 

 

Anyways, Stew was never in danger of being cut this year.  We do need to find his replacement, cause CAP hasn't shown that he is it.

[Cookie Lyon]

 

[panther4life]

1 hour ago, Bartin said:

There may not even be much new money at all. His current deal already had a voidable year in 2018. So convert that to a regular contract year, add some non-guaranteed base salary, convert his 2017 salary into signing bonus and he really doesn't get any new money, creates some cap room for this year that we needed after the spending spree and gives us a team option for 2018. Maybe he gets $1M or so guaranteed next year.

You are all over this. Just want to add my thoughts to this.

2018 was a voidable year much like Gross' was and Kalil's was before he re-did his deal last year.

We were already slated to have dead money of 1.5 million in 2018.

I can tell by the change in the NFLPA salary cap report we reduced his 17 cap hit by about 2.75 Million.

So he goes from a 8.2 Million cap hit in 17 to a 5.5 Million cap hit. So we must have reduced his "base salary"  for 17 in exchange for:

His base salary goes down from 5.5 Million (not guaranteed at all) to 2.75 million fully guaranteed. 

In exchange for this his deal now runs through 2019 and 2018 is no longer an automatically voidable deal. 2019 may still be voidable?

Need to see more details before we can truly analyze this deal. What is his now 18 and 19 salary's and are any of it guaranteed?

The running back market is ice cold right now and Stewart virtually had 0 leverage at all. Gettleman may have been able to capitalize on this and approached Stewart about an outright paycut. Stewart knew he wouldn't get the 5.5 million salary he was set to make here anywhere else so why not stay here and take his real market value? 

Be very interesting to see the details on this, but again Gettleman had all the leverage in the world on this one and I have no reason to believe he didn't capitalize and struck a very good deal for the team here.